Every spring, maple trees produce small flowers that turn into seeds. Normally, a cold frost kills some blossoms, but this year the usual chill didn't arrive at the right time. More blossoms than ...

“With maples, it’s yearly, and you’ll have a kind of a low, seep crop, especially when they’re dry, or they might even drop that seed crop, really not let it develop all the way.

Slide 1 of 3, cross section of a flower with pollen, pollen tube, and ovary labelled, ... The sycamore maple seed is dispersed by wind, it spins away from the parent plant.

Q. Last fall, I collected Japanese Maple seeds from trees in the neighborhood and planted about 100 of them in small pots, left them out over the winter, and did not get a single sprout. Advice on … ...